Comments on: Full Circle: Japan’s Wearable Robotic Tail and the Ethics of Augmentation https://www.designwhine.com/japans-wearable-robotic-tail-arque/ Tech Through A Design Lens Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:28:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: DesignWhine Editorial Team https://www.designwhine.com/japans-wearable-robotic-tail-arque/#comment-232 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:28:36 +0000 https://www.designwhine.com/?p=15052#comment-232 In reply to Acripplepunk.

Thank you for your comment. I completely appreciate the importance of including disabled people’s perspectives, and I would love to incorporate that. However, this article primarily praises the technology and expresses some skepticism about its practicality. DesignWhine has always admired technology and design that aim to address longstanding challenges.

]]> By: Acripplepunk https://www.designwhine.com/japans-wearable-robotic-tail-arque/#comment-231 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:24:12 +0000 https://www.designwhine.com/?p=15052#comment-231 Some of your ethical concerns are valid- putting the pressure on us to change versus society, data collection- but most of it is condescending and not reflective of actual disabled people’s opinions. I suggest you speak to multiple mobility impaired people before you write another like this.
Also, while I agree that society needs to become more adaptable, it is not going to happen soon. If it ever happens. Technology like this allows me to interact with society as it is. Dreaming of utopia is nice, but I live in the real world. I need access now.

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